The Azerbaijan Democratic Party ADP (in abbreviation) (Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...

: Azərbaycan Demokrat Partiyası).

History

The Azerbaijan Democratic Party was established on January 26, 1991 by the participants of 27 persons. On October 17, it was registered by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. It was registered by the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan Republic on March 14, 1993 after the adoption a new law about political parties. Later in the same year, the headquarters of the party was moved into the city of Baku. Sardar Jalaloglu

Sardar Jalaloglu

Sardar Jalaloglu is an Azeri doctor and politician. He was born in the village of Cehri of Babek district of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. He went to school in Ordubad and finished his secondary school in Baku. In 1997, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Medical Institute...

 was elected as a party leader at the first Congress of ADP and remained a sole leader of the ADP between 1994-1996. In order to prevent the participation of ADP in the parliament election, the Ministry of Justice, by political request, cancelled the registration of the party illegally on September 1, 1995. As a result of five years intensive and continues struggle, and by the pressure of international organizations and diplomatic corpus to the government, the Justice Ministry had to reregister ADP again.

Integration

ADP is a leader and pioneer of integration in the history of Azerbaijan’s political life. On March 30, 1996 under the leadership of Ilyas Ismayilov - the former General Prosecutor and Chairman of “Adalat” (Justice) Party in 1998, under the leadership of ex-speaker of Azerbaijani parliament Rasul Guliyev

Rasul Guliyev

-Early years:Guliyev was born on December 10, 1947 in the Gazanchy village of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. After completing his secondary education in 1965, he entered the Chemistry-Technology faculty of the Oil And Chemistry Institute of Azerbaijan, graduating in 1970 and...

’s “International Fond of Democracy and Ecology”, Democratic Azerbaijan Party; in 2000 the Democratic Path Party joined to ADP. The first time in the history of Azerbaijan’s political life, five members of the dominant governing party YAP (NAP) in Milli Majlis (Parliament) and one neutral member joined to ADP between 1998-1999.

Conference

First Conference – 25.04.1992, Nakhchivan

Second Conference - 28.07.1993, Baku

Third Conference - 23.01.1994, Baku

Sixth (Unification) Conference - 29.11.1998, Baku

Seventh Emergency Conference - 22.06.2003, Baku

Congress

First Congress – 07.08.1994, Baku

Second (emergency) Congress - 10.09.1995, Baku

Third extraordinary (unification) and Forth (unification) Congress - 30.03.1996, Baku

Third (extraordinary) Congress - 25.04.1998, Baku

Eighth Congress – 23.04.2005, Baku

Ninth Congress – 27.05.2005, Baku

Political Council

Chairman – Sardar Jalaloglu

Sardar Jalaloglu

Sardar Jalaloglu is an Azeri doctor and politician. He was born in the village of Cehri of Babek district of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. He went to school in Ordubad and finished his secondary school in Baku. In 1997, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Medical Institute...

Deputy Chairman – Hasret Rustemov

Deputy Election and Legistilation – Taliyet Aliyev

Deputy Section of Analysis and Information – Nureddin İsmayılov

Deputy Organizational Department – Reshid Mensurov

Deputy Finance and Agriculture – Zakir Huseynov

Deputy of Section of Works with Women – Elnara Isayeva

Secretary of High Majlis – Vaqif Shirinov

Deputy Secretary of High Majlis – Isa Gafarov

The Chairman of the Central Control-Inspection Commission - – Bahruz Mammedov